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Re: common symbols
I use GNU gcc, as, ld. I can define input section COMMON but I want
gcc or as produce common symbols automatically. I never saw gcc
produce any COMMON section automatically by C programs.
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Erik Christiansen
<dvalin@internode.on.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:06:33AM +0330, ali hagigat wrote:
>> As far as I understood "common symbol" is defined and it is part of
>> the input section named, COMMON. But that depends on assembler. For
>> GNU as, it seems that we can not define common symbol!!
>
> For which target is gas not heeding your attempts?
> What assembler syntax are you using to specify the input section of your
> test code?
> What are the error messages?
>
> If your linker script lacks a "COMMON" input section, you are free to
> add it. The first linker script I glanced at has it by default, and not
> surprisingly, it is in the .bss output section.
>
> Erik
>
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